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Well, that’s interesting.
I just got a bitcoin ransom threat via email. Immediately reported it to IC3 and FTC. Obviously didn’t reply or pay. Apparently this type of threat is familiar and known to be false. Several commenters on the FTC blog pasted the text of the threat, which was exactly the same as the one I received…
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Conditions for an experiment
I’ll call this my year-end shit for 2021, since I can’t think of anything remotely positive to say about this year. Even my own production of graphics and writing was low this year. I’m weary and tired. Let’s return to the oldest constant theme of this blog: Social Economics. SocEcon companies treat workers like valuable…
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Electrotherapy again, review (part 1/3)
I decided to revisit electrotherapy. We’ll start with a condensed reprint of several posts, mainly from 2012 and 2013. Shepardson in 1901 described how plants can be nourished by electrostatic fields. Charge was used as a replacement for light, both in nature and by human experimenters. In my reading of 1901-era technology, I’d noticed considerable…
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Electrotherapy again, soothing (part 2/3)
Life is rough. Life is full of sudden bumps and shocks and nasty surprises and abrasions, even when psychopathic Nazi demon torturers aren’t in charge of the entire fucking world. For thousands of years healers have used ointments, balms, and syrups for their soothing properties. These compounds often remained in religious ceremonies after religion and…
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Electrotherapy again, soothing (part 3/3)
The Vreeland was a smooth oscillator, but it also had a digital rheostat or current control on the left side. This was not active during therapy; it was set once and left alone. Here’s a clearer picture of the same digital rheostat in use with a forge: = = = = = Jerky current control…
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It’s not just the trademark
Speaking of big tech magazines properly mocking bitcoin…. Verge reports on Jack Dorsey’s switch from real digital payments to fake bitcoin. He plans to rename his existing payment service from Square to Block. HR Block has filed a trademark suit, which is on solid ground because Dorsey is expanding into fake tax services along with…
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Still more bitcoin point-missing
Continuing to watch the odd imbalance of HARDASS realists on every other issue who are pure suckers and sellers of bitcoin. Greenwald is an unusually conscientious and thorough realist, trying harder than anyone else in the “journalism” realm to maintain perfect objectivity. He’s falling under the mysterious spell of bitcoin. Two weeks ago I noted…
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Weird GIF stuff in WordPress
After a month of using WP, I have mixed feelings. On the pro side: My reason for switching was to get away from censors and takedowns. So far there haven’t been any takedowns. I’ve been speaking the same truth in the same hard language, and nothing has been censored YET. On the con side, WP…
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Katydids part 1, reprint
I wrote this item in 2012. A new piece of related research spurred me to revise and expand. First the 2012 version: = = = = = START REPRINT: Wonderful example of what can happen when you decide to look closely at something, instead of fucking around with numbers and potentialities and apocalyptic religious delusions.…
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Katydids part 2, revision
New research at Bristol takes a closer look and separates out the parts more clearly. So I’ll do the same. First we see Katy walking along a branch, and pausing when she hears something interesting… What does she hear? Perhaps something in the air, or perhaps a vibration on the stem that indicates a tasty…
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Shrier’s speech
Abigail Shrier stated a simple obvious fact and got slammed by all the Cool People. She then tried to give a speech about her book at Princeton and had to give it in a private home with no cameras allowed. (But it’s worth remembering that she wasn’t jailed or officially punished, just socially punished.) Bari…
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Where are the unions?
The situation of workers in 1946 was similar to 2021 in some ways, at least numerically. Employees had been working long hours and multiple shifts during the war, and everyone was DEAD TIRED. Inflation was raging. Corporations wanted to return to normal hours AND normal pay, while prices were getting more and more abnormal. Unions…
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A necessary part of the cure
We should start thinking about the NEVER AGAIN process, to insure that demonic torturers can’t take over the entire world. (For a while.) We know that there won’t be a Nuremberg or anything remotely resembling “justice”. Demons are only prosecuted for INEFFICIENT OR INADEQUATE EVIL, never for doing too much evil. We will have to…
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Old thoughts on replication
I’m redoing and expanding my old katydid animation, in response to a new piece of research that expands the parallels between the katydid cochlea and ours. More on that in a couple of days. While looking at the old version, I came across an abandoned set of thoughts in 2016. The abandoned thoughts are worth…
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Michelet on how it ends
I’ve been citing and quoting Michelet’s magnificent 1904 essay on the Inquisition. Michelet was writing at a time when the psychopaths had been out of power for quite a while. The French scientific genocide faded in 1800 as Napoleon turned into a more ordinary imperialist, focused on expanding Empire instead of exterminating his own people.…
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